[Swift-devel] print misbehavin'

[Yong Zhao]

I was referring to the mechnism to put extra stuff along with an object.
anyways, if we change all the translations of constants to swift objects,
we might be able to do this. But it is a complicated issue once you have
all the paths and expressions and constants mixed together.

Yong.

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:23 -0500, Yong Zhao wrote:
> > Yeah, I wanted to wrap the karajan functions such as sum, product etc
> > and return handles but then realized that karajan did not keep the type
> > information.
>
> It does not have a type system. Of course it doesn't keep type info, nor
> would it have polymorphism.
>
> But I don't think that's an issue. We've already established that from
> the beginning and created a swift specific type system. I don't see why
> that cannot be used.
> I.e. instead of sum, you translate to vdl:sum which unwraps the values,
> does the addition and wraps the result back. This is pretty much what
> any dynamic type system would do.
>
> >  We need to find a way to make this right.
> >
> > Yong.
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ben Clifford wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Actually that will break user defined procs, since they expect wrapped
> > > > values.
> > >
> > > user defined procs are broken either way - at present, they can't take
> > > expressions are parameters:
> > >
> > > q=p(3) correctly outputs a 3 in something like this:
> > >
> > >   type file {};
> > >
> > >   (file i) p(int n) {
> > >     app {
> > >       echo n stdout=@filename(i);
> > >     }
> > >   }
> > >
> > >   file q <"volume.blah">;
> > >
> > >   q=p(3);
> > >
> > > but saying q=p(1+2) breaks with this:
> > >
> > > Incompatible argument type for var: expected handle; got java.lang.Double.
> > > Offending argument: 3.0
> > >
> > > for pretty much the same reason - its expecting a wrapped value but
> > > expression evaluation is providing an unwrapped value.
> > >
> > > bleugh.
> > >
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